Nelson’s piece is in the form of an interview with Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at Holy Cross. Nelson poses questions to Schneider, then records his responses.

(Yesterday, Nelson listed Schneider as an assistant professor of history. The error has been corrected.)

In this, her introduction to the piece, Nelson provides an overview:

NELSON (10/13/14): Polls about education in the US quickly find a paradox: most people like their neighborhood schools, but they think education as a whole in the US is going downhill. Everyone thinks their neighborhood school is the exception, not the rule.

Jack Schneider, an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, makes another argument. He says there's never been a better time to be a student in American public schools, which educate a broader swathe of the population more successfully than ever before. We talked about his argument and about the dominance of the crisis narrative in education. Our conversation has been edited slightly for clarity and length.

Most people think education is going downhill. But Schneider says our public schools have never been better!

That would be a significant claim, if anything qualified any more. But when we read Nelson’s report, it struck us as grossly incompetent.

Please note—Schneider’s answers have been “edited slightly for clarity and length.” This means we can’t be entirely sure of what he actually said, including what he may have said that Nelson chose to leave out.

That said, the interview addresses an important, widely-debated question—and it strikes us as tremendously incompetent.

Nelson graduated from Northwestern in 2009. Presumably, she’s one of the bright young writers who were going to make Vox the place for the new, smarter journalism.

Her interview didn’t strike us that way. It called to mind the gloomy lesson we’ve drawn from the past sixteen years.

Are American public schools better than ever? Our journalism certainly isn’t!

Quite a remarkable and broad statement, and I wonder what Somerby bases this upon.

Had he said that "most people" whatever that means think that "public education in the inner city is going downhill" he might have an argument he can substantiate, since we are beseiged with propaganda aimed at defunding those schools and destroying teachers' unions.

But I'll guess that just about everywhere else, especially the suburbs, people are quite happy with public education.

It is better if people go and read the article for themselves before getting Somerby's take on it. That is more likely to happen this way, than if he spared people the effort by immediately giving his opinions. My bet would be that he has already written tomorrow's post.

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